1. Someone for Me
2. I Feel Like We Have Met Before
3. We Were Simply Meant to Be
4. Am I Dreaming
5. You Are
6. I’m On a Cloud
7. Since That Day
8. Be My Valentine
9. It’s Not the Same Without You
10. Since You Went Away
11. Many Loves Ago
Paulien – Vocals
Royce Campbell – Guitar
Tony Nalker – Piano
Tom Baldwin – Bass
Tony Martucci – Drums
Words & Music by Royce
Campbell
Everything about this album
smacks of professionalism: a nice cover picture
and some useful information about the tunes,
the singer and the musicians. Just one minor
blemish: it’s very difficult to read the tune
titles printed in red against a black background
on the back cover and they are not printed
elsewhere.
The music is very interesting
however. This is an album of very pleasant
love songs written by guitarist Royce Campbell
and well delivered by singer Paulien. She
is not a jazz singer in the classic style,
but she delivers a song with accuracy, simplicity,
good intonation and great diction. The backing
group are very good, providing just the right
kind of accompaniment, with some very attractive
solos from Tony Nalker and Royce Campbell.
In the sleeve note, Royce
Campbell mentions that George and Ira Gershwin
preferred Fred Astaire to be the singer who
introduced their songs to the public, because
he sang the song in the way they had intended
it to be sung when they wrote it. Paulien
is probably Royce Campbell’s Fred Astaire!
The songs are certainly worthy of inclusion
in the library of other singers and the quartet
is well worthy of its task as an accompanying
group.
Don Mather
CD Reviews
Brik
Productions SN111160P
